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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 9, 1907. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The first week in May brings rather 

 unusual conditions. Owing to the cool, 

 (lark weather which has prevailed for a 

 fortnight or more, flowers where they 

 have been cared for are in excellent con- 

 dition; unusually good value for the 

 prices prevailing. There is, of course, 

 considerable rubbish of little or no value. 

 Business has fallen off, the demand being 

 weak and irregular, especially on white 

 flowers. Colored stock is much better 

 value. Carnations have again become 

 rather scarce, prices holding well for the 

 season, excepting on whites. Sw«et peas 

 have fallen, the best being one-third 

 lower than ten days ago. Violets can 

 still be had, owing to the cool weather. 



Cornflowers have made their appear- 

 ance in fair quantity. Candytuft is an 

 addition to the list. Valley is in fair 

 demand; the outdoor stock has not as 

 yet made any impression. Cattleya 

 Mossiae is of excellent quality and plenti- 

 ful; other orchids are over. Beauties are 

 fine, plentiful, and good value. Tea roses 

 are selling well for the better grades, 

 poorly for the ordinary. Liberty and 

 Richmond are not in especial demand. 

 Ilarrisii lilies are scarcer, the best bring- 

 ing higher prices. Daisies are fine and 

 plentiful. Dagger ferns are extremely 

 scarce. 



Wyncote. 



It always is a pleasure to go over the 

 houses of the Joseph Heacock Co., near 

 Jenkintown station, P. & E. No matter 

 what season of the year you may happen 

 to visit them, order and cleanliness 

 always prevail. The palm range is de- 

 voted largely to kentias, as of yore, two- 

 thirds Belmoreana and one-third Forster- 

 iana. The stock is in vigorous condition, 

 showing only the ravages of the buyer, a 

 parasite who threatens to destroy certain 

 sizes before August if unchecked. There 

 are, however, thousands more in the next 

 lower sizes coming rapidly forward. The 

 features of the larger kentias are the 

 introduction of the 9-inch and of the 

 12-inch tubs, which have now supplanted 

 pots of those sizes. These tubs, noted 

 before in these columns, are very desira- 



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ble for the decorator, as they cannot be 

 broken, and are easily handled. From a 

 grower's standpoint the moisture of the 

 wood is more beneficial to root action 

 than the pots, which so readily dry out. 



A change is noted in the system of 

 making up plants. In Forsteriana, espe- 

 cially, 12-inch tubs are now made up 

 from the specimen 8-inch plants, sur- 

 rounded by smaller 5-inch plants. This 

 is preferred to the old method of mak- 

 ing them up in 6-inch from a 4-inch 

 plant and some smaller plants around it. 

 Belmoreana, while more expensive, is oc- 

 casionally made up for buyers who pre- 

 fer this variety for its grace. 



One house of Areca lutescens is now 

 growing into condition. This variety had 

 been almost discarded, but was taken up 

 again to meet the market requirements. 

 Cocos WeddelUana is grown in limited 

 quantities for fern dishes. 



Among the ferns were some specimens 

 of Nephrolepis Bostoniensis Harrisii in 

 12-inch pans on pedestals. The plain 

 Boston fern is grown to some extent in 

 5-inch and 6-inch pots; also N. Whit- 

 mani and N. Baxrowsii. A few plants of 

 Cibotium Schiedei are also grown. 



The rose par excellence of the place is 

 American Beauty, house after house 

 being filled with this variety, tall and 

 leafy as a forest, with thousands of their 

 little ones in 2^x3-inch pots near by. 



Liberty, Bichmond and Killarney are 

 also grown, the first largely. 



Two additions, made recently, add 

 dignity to the establishment, the first a 

 handsome office with open brick fire- 

 place, an air of substantial comfort per- 

 vading; under it a well-built cement 

 vault containing an ice-box for holding 

 the roses. Some fine carnations on a 

 shelf in the vault gave evidence of well- 

 grown stock in those houses. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Balderston, of Colora, Md., 

 well known as a grower of Jacq roses, 

 died April 28, 1907, after a severe attack 

 of grip. Mr. Balderston, who was 61 

 years of age, has been a shipper to this 

 city for many years. 



Miss Mooney, of Mooney & Weir, 

 "The Little Flower Shop," Wilkes 

 Barre, Pa., was a visitor in this city on 

 Monday. 



The Florex Gardens have their mam- 

 moth greenhouse at North Wales, Pa., 

 well under way. The smaller house is 

 far advanced. Eugene Bernheimer and 

 George Samtman are busily engaged 

 there, keeping the wheels moving. 



William Gloeckner, of Albany, N. Y., 

 was in this city last week. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. are handling 

 some chiffon mats, or window rugs, as 

 Mr. Berkowitz aptly describes them. 



